<p>I want to live in your dorm, musicallylatin! The bathroom would probably be the cleanest on campus. :D</p>
<p>off topic - are there individual showers at most of these schools or are they all group showers?</p>
<p>Im at a TSAO school and the bathroom is so-so. There are the ocasional hairballs on the floor, the floor is usually wet becuase people shower at all times of the day, there is hair on the shower walls and people leave their stuff in there once in a while. The toilets though are fine. As long as I always go into the bathroom with flipflops on (including the shower) I am OK. it doesn’t smell at al.</p>
<p>Wear flip flops or shower shoes. Although i do not attend a boarding school (yet) i went to a summer camp at a small college last year. My friend did not wear shoes in the shower and got a nasty foot fungus.</p>
<p>I go to Hotchkiss and the bathrooms are always clean. They have a housekeeper that cleans them every morning and most of the girls on my floor try to keep the bathroom as clean as possible. I was also worried about the bathroom situation, but I have found that the bathrooms are usually very clean.</p>
<p>At Hotchkiss, the boys have communal showers and the girls have individual showers.</p>
<p>What about Exeter - individual showers or not? :)</p>
<p>I don’t know about guys dorms but we have individual showers in the bathrooms that we share with about five other people except for the senior suites which have their own bathrooms.</p>
<p>at middlesex the bathrooms are pretty clean, and like no one wears shower shoes. There’s a housekeeper that cleans the bathrooms every day, so aside from the occasional bit of hair in the shower, it’s really clean. And all the showers on campus (that I know of, anyway) are individual.</p>
<p>headingtohkiss was ALMOST right
im a boy at hotchkiss, and in boys dorms there are two communal showers, and one individual one. people that are not comfortable using the communal showers use the stall.</p>
<p>actually, i forgot the showers in the boys’ locker rooms. those are communal, but unless you’re a day student you can just go back to your dorm. I’m a girl so it doesn’t matter anyway, but i shower in my dorm.</p>
<p>Bathrooms were actually something I worried about before I got to boarding school. I am small for my age and it can be awkward to share a bathroom or shower with guys twice my size. But dorm life is worth it because you are getting to know nice kids and no one has picked on me except for a few friendly comments about tighty whities, lol.</p>
<p>Exeter has individual showers.</p>
<p>At Andover our bathrooms own. We share 1 shower between 4 guys, a toilet, and 2 sinks. I don’t know what you all mean by communal showers. We have those in Borden Gym. The only problem with the showers is that they take a while to get hot. I take first shower in the mourning, so I should know.</p>
<p>When I was at Taft, the tour guide told me that most of their showers are communal, but some are individual. He said that when he first went to the school, he thought it was so strange that he wanted to leave. Now he is fine with them. He was telling us while we were coming back from their hockey rink. Hmm, they have two hockey rinks, an 18 hole golf course, awesome field house, etc., but no curtains in their showers? All I could think is that they have a $200 million endowment and are still to cheap to put up curtains?</p>
<p>I saw the shower stalls at Choate (I’m a girl), and they looked very nice. Individual stalls, clean floors, etc. Of course, I was touring, so it wasn’t a spitty spotty examination of the bathroom.</p>
<p>TSAO (Ten School Association) is similar to the ESA (Eight Schools Association), but less exclusive with more schools. Just another branding name.</p>